Aero engine / Airframe Preparation and Finishing

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Aero engine / Airframe
Preparation and Finishing
Aerospace centres of excellence
and areas they are responsible for.
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DIN EN ISO 9001
Surface Treatment Activities
Test centres
Standard range
Dry process
Wet process
Water-jet cleaning
Shot peening
Stripping
Plunge grinding and drag finishing
Vibratory finishing
Abrasive or media selection
Draft Project
Mechanical engineering
Automation engineering
Turn key
Manufacturing and assembly
Design engineering
Robotics/CNC
Supervisor system
Acceptance tests
Starting up
On-site assembly and testing
Commissioning
Training
Service
After-sales service
Maintenance contracts
Spare parts
Abrasives and consumables
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Rösler is the world’s leading producer of surface finishing equipment together with related abrasives and water
treatment. Our machine build programme includes shot
blasting / shot peening, vibratory and high-energy
abrasive finishing systems.
Our research and development programmes have in
recent years produced many surface finishing processes
now widely used in the world’s high tech industries, with
aerospace in particular benefiting from them. With the
integration of Aerospace Specialist Vapor-Blast we can
now offer a solution to all surface finishing and blasting
applications.
Rösler’s worldwide centers of excellence are set up to
Aero Engine and Air Frame finishing on both new and
perform surface finishing process trials on customer’s
rebuild is now a major part of Rösler’s involvement in
components, offer ISO-accredited sub-contract finishing
aerospace. Our unique Keramo® process produces
services, -as well as provide full after sales support that
surface finishes on engine blades, rotors and stators,
includes service, spares and a comprehensive
that yield significant engine performance improvements
inventory of abrasives.
in terms of reduced specific fuel consumption, exhaust
gas temperature margins and limited metal removal.
Our innovative use of a robot (Roboblaster), for shotpeening aero engine blades has improved consistency
of quality for a major aero engine manufacturer.
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Standard range of air blast cabinets
These highly flexible, easy-to-use machines are designed on the simple principle of accelerating the abrasive
with air (pressure or suction), and are particularly suited to small and medium production quantities.
Mobile blast unit with instantaneous recovery
Fitted with an annular brush mounted on a gun, these machines
project, recover, separate, clean and recycle the abrasive. Not
requiring special protection for the operator, they are designed
for local stripping, weld cleaning and peen forming:
Vacjet AC: suction fed.
Vacjet PF: pressure fed.
Vacjet PF mobile unit
Manual blast cabinets (dry process)
A wide range is available from 0.5 to 3.5 m3 capacity, supplied in
two versions:
Suction fed.
Pressure fed.
Models of advanced design, they combine efficiency with ease
of use and environmental compliance. Prefiltration by micro cyclones
reduces abrasive consumption, protects the final filter and allows
blasting with fine abrasives.
210S model
Manual carriage and turntable
106S model
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Manual blast cabinets
6 cabinet models are available from 0.3 to 3.5 m3 capacity.
They are supplied in stainless steel.
210H model
with vertical carriage
and motorized shaft
212H model
with handling and rinsing station
Special equipment
The following optional special equipment can be fitted to
the standard machines:
Motorized barrels,
Motorized turntables,
Automatic x-, y- and z-axis controls,
Handling stations,
Sieving,
Spiral separator (dry process),
Rinsing and settling tanks (wet process),
Semi-automatic doors,
and many more features.
Manual turntable
Eclipsable motorized barrel
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Shot blasting: Dry processing
Fitted with automated systems, CNC systems or robots, these machines will
produce results in accordance with your requirements at high throughputs.
With their multiple nozzles operated simultaneously or sequentially, these
systems are used for all types of mechanical surface treatment (deburring,
stripping, shot blasting, shot peening etc.).
If required, a supervisory system can be fitted for real-time full control and
monitoring parameters as well as for production traceability.
User-friendly software provides a variety of custom menus for access to a
number of functions:
Machine status display
Fault and alarm management production
Monitoring control of variable treatment parameters (part number,
operator’s name, pressure, flow rate, treatment time, etc.)
Maintenance aids
Report output at the end of the cycle.
Recommended Rösler abrasives
Glass beads: dedicate cleaning, satin finishing, engine part renovation.
Bright-Shot glass beads: special glass beads for shot peening.
Aluminium oxide: precoating preparation, stripping.
Plastic media, fruit stones, wheat starch: paint removal from metals and composite materials.
Ceramic beads: satin finishing, cleaning, surface improvement.
Steel shot: shot peening, peen forming.
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Continuous feed loop belt machines, model SBI
SBI machines are mainly used to clean and descale
engine compressor blades and vane assemblies after
heating and forging processes prior to vibratory finishing.
A thru-feed, multiple nozzle, compressed air system incorporating our special polyurethane V-shaped loop conveyor
belt, which gently tumbles and conveys the components
through the blast stream.
Roboblaster for turbine and compressor blades plus vanes
The operating scope of this high performance blast wheel and injection system with single-arm robot comprises deburring, shot peening,
and surface finishing, as well as compression blasting of impact sensitive components of various dimensions. If you are using shotblasting
technology and you are planning on implementing or increasing the
automation involved in your operation, think robo-handling.
The system comprises definition of the size, the performance and the technical parameters of the robot to
be used, as well as determination of the design
of transport systems.
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Air tumble belt batch machines, model range RMBC
The tumble belt batch machine injection system is equipped with
a perfect pressure system including several nozzles.
Multiple nozzles reduce the processing time.
Descaling of non-sensitive components as
a batch application.
Satellite table indexing blasting machines
With the satellite table indexing blasting machine, targeted, careful, non-contact finishing of different kinds of
components and variable capacities is possible in the
same machine.
The entire spectrum of blasting applications ranges from
delicate deburring to shot peening. The installation is of
particular benefit in applications where only specific
sections of the components need to be blasted, not
the entire surface.
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Surface preparation
With our expertise in shot blasting technologies, our
machines are dedicated to surface preparation for plasma coating, painting, etc., and are designed to achieve
consistent high-quality finishing results. To achieve excellent coating results, you need to begin with a perfectly
finished surface.
With a suction or pressure blasting system, a gantry
CNC system or robot, and full process control via PC
or display device, we can provide the tools needed to
meet the most stringent surface preparation specifications
(roughness, coverage, yield, etc.) for a perfect finish.
Surface preparation for compressor and turbine shafts
TURBOMECA CNC machine for plasma preparation
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Wet process
Glass bead blasting by wet process
With 50 years of experience, Rosler is the undisputed
market leader in mass finishing and is strategically
positioned to offer a wide range of blasting solutions.
The wet blasting process is used for surface improvement,
cleaning, stripping, precoating preparation, deburring,
shot peening, and contaminant removal.
The surfaces treated by the wet process come close to
perfection as far as physical/chemical cleanliness is
concerned. This process is particularly suited to the
treatment of delicate, precision machined parts.
The main advantages are:
No dust
Ability to use very fine abrasives.
Reduced fragmentation due to the water film (ideal
for shot peening using glass beads).
Reduced risk of inclusions (especially on soft metal)
Cleaning of dies
as water has a cleaning effect.
Shot peening of ball bearing screw
Recommended Rösler abrasives
Quartz and silica cleaning of mechanical parts and tools.
White aluminium oxide: precoating surface preparation, surface cleaning and preparation on plastics.
Spheric Shot beads: mould and miscellaneous part renovation and cleaning.
Bright Shot beads: wet shot peening, surface blending.
Additives: antirust compounds, non-stick compounds, etc.
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Equipped with similar features as the dry process equipment, the special wet process systems are fitted with automation systems
or numerical driven systems to control the blast nozzles’ movements as well as the handling of the treated parts.
Cleaning, contaminant removal, stripping, precoating, surface preparation and shot peening with glass beads are carried out
with the highest conditions of reproducibility. Parameter optimisation guarantees high quality.
Special equipment can be added to these machines:
Water/abrasive mixture concentration control.
Cyclone separator / hydrocyclone.
Continuous media classification (in particular size ranges).
Filtration and settling tanks for residual water.
Blade treatment
Surface preparation before plasma coating
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Water-jet cleaning
Automated equipment for stripping engine parts using a high pressure
water-jet up to 4000 bar
Cleaning
Stripping of very hard barrier coatings
Environmentally safe. Used in order to replace chemical stripping
Water recycling system
Follow-up and control from a supervisory computer
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Shot peening machine for engine parts
CNC NUM 1060 – 10 axis
Shot peening machine
Robot ABB 6 axis + turntable
2 steel shot sizes
Spiral separator
Continuous sieving
Supervision system
Shot peening machine for airframes
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Shot peening
Shot peening is an important and often vital process in the aerospace industries. Originally done manually with a
ball-peen hammer, shot peening today is a high-tech process to reduce all types of stresses, including tensile,
compressive, and bending stresses, thus stabilising and increasing component life.
Röslers R&D programmes began with the ball-peen hammer and developed it into a wide range of equipment for
controlled and monitored shot peening with Rösler’s robotic systems playing a major role.
Aero engine blades, discs, shafts and airframes are now all peened at some stage in their production cycle.
Engine blades during overhaul are often peened in order to re-induce compressive stress, thus considerably
reducing the possibility of fatigue cracks when back in service.
Eurocopter
Shot peening 6-axis robot + 4 external axis
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Stripping
Aeronautical paint removal using starch blast media.
This process, using a wheat starch, is used for automatically or manually removing paint from composite
or metal substrates.
Paint removal can be complete (substrate stripping with no surface condition change) or selective
(primary coating retained).
For uniform paint removal, Vapor Blast developed a special nozzle. Compared with conventional
cylindrical nozzles, this special nozzle provides optimised distribution of the media over a larger area
(the hot spot is eliminated).
In the automatic mode, the paint removal operation is performed using a 6-axis robot (or a 7-axis robot
when installed on a longitudinal carriage).
The paths are generated by a laser beam providing 3D mapping of the part to be treated.
Up to 30 times faster than manual stripping
Paint removal from aircraft
composite parts (radomes,…)
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Plunge grinding and drag finishing
The Rösler range of high power drag grinding and polishing machines has started to play an ever increasing
role in the finishing needs of the aerospace industries.
The basic principle of drag finishing is the controlled movement of a spindle-mounted component in a static
abrasive mass.
There are many benefits with this type of finishing.
100% protection against impingement of heavy and/or delicate aerospace components
Cutting rates greater than normal vibro or high-energy systems
Low Ra values
Access to difficult to reach areas of component
Even surface coverage
Rösler drag finishing offers the ideal solution for turbine blades and vanes, particularly multi-span assemblies
which formerly have been finished by hand or chemical processes.
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Rösler rotary vibrator lines including drying systems and waste water
treatment (centrifuges)
Finishing of engine blades
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Vibratory finishing
The surface finishing of casings and large structures on both new and re-built aero engines and air frames has
always been expensive. The surface finish is important because surface smoothness and blending of machine
marks and sharp corners improves engine performance, fuel consumption and safety.
The work is often carried out manually, requiring a a high skill level. Unfortunately, this method produces variations in finish and thus quality problems.
Throughout the aerospace industry, there are many types of Rösler vibratory machines in use finishing
large structures.
A specialised range of circular vibratory bowls, designed without a centre column, is used to surface finish blisks
and complete stator rings. The action of the abrasive media in this type of machine is excellent, giving good
media coverage over all airflow surfaces.
Special wide range through vibrator
Finishing of large wing spars
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Surface finishing chips and compounds
These are the perfect basis for all surface finishing processes. They ideally combine environmental aspects with high precision
and quality of process technology.
We are committed to continuous improvement of our products and processes in our laboratories and test centres. By our doing
so, you have the assurance of being at the forefront of surface finishing technology. As a result, we are always developing new
opportunities in choosing the correct application for your surface finishing process.
Effective checking of incoming raw materials and finished products to DIN EN ISO 9001 standards ensures the high quality of
our consumables.
Regardless of whether standard products or special products are used, you can be sure that environmental
protection accompanies your surface finishing operations with each process.
Quality of Supply
In our central storage facility and in the storage facilities of our subsidiaries worldwide, we are continuously supplying around
8,000 types of high quality consumables.
Selecting the right shot media
Your guarantee of high quality production
4 criteria:
Process
Compressed air: dry process, wet process.
Airless system.
Parts to be treated
Shape, weight, hardness.
Geometry, tolerances.
Treatment
Shot peening.
Precoating preparation (Roughness: Ra).
Finishing (appearance).
Cleaning.
Deburring.
Stripping.
Contaminant removal, etc.
Production requirement
Throughput.
Quality level.
Rösler offers 7 families of abrasives and products:
1. Aluminium oxide.
The families (1), (2), (3) and (5) can be used for dry
2. Glass beads.
and wet processes (air blasting).
3. Ceramic beads.
Quartz and silica (4) are reserved for wet sand blasting
4. Quartz and silica.
operations (not useable for the dry process)
5. Plastic media.
Vegetal media (6) is used for the dry process (pressure).
6. Starch blast media.
The families (3) and (7) can be used both in airless and
7. Metallic shot.
air blasting (dry process)
All abrasives or products currently available in the market are distributed by Rösler.
A supply department and dedicated work offers the following services: treatment of unit parts, preproduction, etc.
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Test Centres and Service
Finding a better way…a commitment to our customers
Test Centres worldwide
Throughout our worldwide organization we adhere to strict quality control procedures. This applies especially to
our test centres where we develop process solutions for all kinds of surface finishing problems. Each branch of
the Rösler group features its own test centre equipped with the latest Rösler finishing equipment. This equipment is
utilized exclusively for processing trials with our customer’s sample parts.
For Rösler service is not just an empty promise
Professional advice, short turn-around times and prompt and reliable after-sales service: Rösler offers single-source
surface finishing solutions, on a worldwide basis!
Installation and training
Machine installations and operator training are performed by our team of highly skilled
and experienced service engineers.
Spare parts service
Surface finishing equipment generally is subject to a considerable amount of wear. For this reason
preventive maintenance and prompt supply of spare parts are a key requirement for any surface finishing
installation. Rösler maintains a complete inventory of spare parts in every branch, ensuring local supply and
fast availability, be it wire mesh belts, blasting wheels, pressure vessels or any kind of nozzles, etc. To
minimize downtime, parts are either delivered and installed by our own field service personnel or shipped
to our customer’s location overnight.
Maintenance and repair service
Rösler maintains a well trained staff of professional field service engineers providing prompt, reliable
maintenance and repair service at competitive rates as well as overhaul of your older equipment.
Professional advice
Our finishing specialists stand ready to provide information regarding any kind of question relating to
specific surface finishing problems. With decades of experience we will be able to provide you with the
right answers.
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